Beyond Decolonial African Philosophy: Africanity, Afrotopia, and Transcolonial Perspectives

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
	Notes
	Bibliography
Part 1: Philosophy and Decolonial African Thinking
	Chapter 1: Philosophy in the Present Context of Africa
		Acknowledgements
		Notes
		Bibliography
Part 2: Challenging and Rethinking Decolonialism
	Chapter 2: Criticisms and Self-Criticisms: The Decolonial Question and Some “Unthinkables” in Francophone Experiences
		2.1 Introduction
		2.2 The Anti-Colonial Question among Some French Philosophers of the Twentieth Century
			2.2.1 After the French Revolution: Relations between Philosophy and the State in France
			2.2.2 The Anti-Colonial Current
		2.3 Ambiguities: Anti-Colonialism and Ethnocentrism
			2.3.1 Merleau-Ponty and African Independences: Could One “Decolonize” the Humanist?
		2.4 The Pitfalls of Colonial Psychology and Ethnology: How to “Decolonize” Mounier/Deleuze-Guattari?
		2.5 Decolonial Turn among Francophones African and Self-Criticism
			2.5.1 “Decoloniality of Being and Decoloniality of Knowledge”: “Southern Epistemologies and Ideologies”, Boaventura de Sousa’s Critique
			2.5.2 Frantz Fanon: A Liberator of the Third World or a Hidden Male Chauvinist?
			2.5.3 Aimé Césaire and His Ambiguities: Cutting the Umbilical Cord with France?
			2.5.4 Maryse Condé and the “Comité pour la Mémoire de l’Esclavage”: The Laughter of Seventeenth-Century Franciscans?
		2.6 The Subsidized “Decolonial”: French-Speaking Critics and France
			2.6.1 Political Situation of France and “Decolonial Turn”
			2.6.2 New African Intellectuals at the Service of France’s “Civilizing Mission”: How to Decolonize the “Decolonizers”?
			2.6.3 “In Linguam Gallicam”: African Democracy from Eiffel Tower …
			2.6.4 Poetics and Historicity
		2.7 Conclusion: Decolonizing “The Commodification of Our Existences”
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter 3: Decolonization beyond History: Rethinking the Epistemology of Resistance
		Introduction
		What Is Decolonization?
			Decoloniality and the Limits of Epistemic Justice
		Decolonization and the Problems of Historical Analogy
		Cultural Reclamation as a Decolonial Theory of Human Reconciliation
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter 4: “The Locals Also Have a Hand in It”: Properly Understanding Coloniality for the Rethinking of Decoloniality in Africa
		Introduction
		On the Coloniality of Power in General
		The African Perspective to the Coloniality of Power
		Ideological Roots of the Complicity of Local Agency in Africa
		Literature, Philosophy of History and Local Agency in the Complicity
		From Coloniality to the Rethinking of Decoloniality in Africa
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter 5: Africa’s Future: Political and Economic Discourse
		5.1 Introduction
		5.2 Africa’s Bright Future
		5.3 Africa’s Dim Future
		5.4 The African and Africa’s Future
			5.4.1 Political Forces on the African
			5.4.2 Economic Forces on the African
		5.5 The Hope for Africa’s Future
		5.6 Conclusions
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter 6: Decolonization or Indigenization? The Vexing Question of Decolonizing Education in Africa
		Introduction
		Colonial Cultural Imposition on African Education
		Mitigating European Influence on African Educational System through Indigenization
		Decolonizing Education without Indoctrination
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Bibliography
Part 3: Decolonialism Revisited – New Concepts
	Chapter 7: Beyond the Politics of Decoloniality
		7.1 Introduction
		7.2 Decolonial Theory
		7.3 Decoloniality’s Political Capture
		7.4 An Alternative to Decoloniality
		7.5 Conclusion
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter 8: Quest for Afrotopia in Late Postcolonial Lusophone Literature: A Focus on Guinea-Bissau
		Colonial beginnings
		Multilingual oralities and the advent of the decolonial Creole expression
		The emergence of the Guinean novel
		A minimalistic Afrotopia
		The quest for a new identity
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter 9: Constructivism as the Root of Transcolonial Approach to African Affairs
		9.1 Introduction
		9.2 Afro-constructivism: Assumptions, Meaning and Logic
		9.3 Decolonialism and the Route out of the Decolonial Black Hole
		9.4 Strengthening Transcolonial Approach to African Affairs
		9.5 Conclusion
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter 10: On the Decolonial Paradigm of Development
		10.1 Introduction
		10.2 Understanding the Decolonial Paradigm of Development
		10.3 Horton on Tradition and Modernity
		10.4 The Possibility of an Ontological Return to Traditionalism
		10.5 The Transcolonial Approach to Development
		10.6 Conclusion
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter 11: The Case against Decolonization: A Legal Perspective
		11.1 Introduction
		11.2 What Is Decolonization?
			11.2.1 Impact of European Colonialism
			11.2.2 Colonialism and Permanent Settlement
			11.2.3 Colonialism and Resource Control
			11.2.4 Colonialism and Cultural Replication
		11.3 Trajectory of Normative Adaptation
			11.3.1 Roman Colonization of Britain
			11.3.2 Norman Colonization of Britain
		11.4 Towards an African Legal Identity
			11.4.1 Identity and Conflict of Laws
			11.4.2 What Is Constructive Law Reform?
			11.4.3 Reform and Cultural Consciousness
		11.5 Conclusion
		Acknowledgement
		Notes
		Bibliography
			Books and chapters
			Journals
			Reports and newspapers
			Legislation
			Case law
	Chapter 12: Towards a Dialogic Trans-colonial African Identity
		Introduction
		Part One
			Colonization, Decolonization, Coloniality, Decoloniality and Trans-coloniality
		Part Two
			Schools of African Coloniality and Decoloniality
			The Africanists
			The Modernists
			The Constructivists
			The Deconstructionists
		Part Three
			Towards a Dialogic Trans-Colonial African Identity
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter 13: Refracting Ubuntu Philosophy through a Constructivist Lens
		Introduction
		Rwandan and Malian Indigenous Justice Practices
		The Violence of the Law – Talking Back to Lady Justice
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter 14: Reappraisal and Conclusion
		Notes
		Bibliography
Index